Congratulations to the kindergarten students who will represent our class at the school poetry contest tomorrow: Brooke Tran, Jonah Turner, and Isla Cantzler!
All of the kindergarten kids did a great job! It was a tough decision only choosing three kids from our class. We wish Brooke, Jonah and Isla lots of luck tomorrow!
We are so proud to announce that we are going to be published authors! The kindergarten class is currently working on creating a class book that will be published and available for purchase through Studentreasures Publishing. The students will all be writing and illustrating one page in the book and the book will be a compilation of the entire class.
Book orders were sent home with the students today. Books are available for purchase at a cost of $19.95 per book. It is certainly not mandatory to purchase books, but we have done this project the last two years and the end product is well done and a nice keepsake. All order forms are due back by this Friday, March 13th. If you are not interested in purchasing a book, please check the “No” box at the bottom of the form. Please return all order forms! If all order forms are returned, our class will receive a free class book to add to our classroom library.
Stop by the room after school if you would like to take a look at the books from the past two years before ordering.
Yesterday we celebrated Dr. Seuss’s birthday by making “-at Hats”. We will be reading Dr. Seuss books all week. If any students have a favorite Dr. Seuss book at home, they should bring it into school on Friday to share with their reading buddy.
We spelled words by jumping from letter to letter! See some pictures by clicking on this post. [Show picture list]
We do not have “homework” in kindergarten, but it is very important to read at home. Please read at home with your child at least 60 minutes a week. Then, record the books you read and time spent reading on the monthly reading log. If you read only 9 minutes a day, you will have read over 60 minutes for the week! You may record time that you are reading to your child or challenge your child to read to you. Each weekly reading log is due the following Monday and will count as a reading project for your child. Reading logs will start this week, the second week of September. Please use the completed first week as an example.
The importance of vocabulary knowledge has long been recognized in the development of reading skills. As early as 1924, researchers noted that growth in reading power means continuous growth in word knowledge (Whipple, 1925). Vocabulary is critically important in oral reading instruction.
There are two types of vocabulary — oral and print. A reader who encounters a strange word in print can decode the word to speech. If it is in the reader’s oral vocabulary, the reader will be able to understand it. If the word is not in the reader’s oral vocabulary, the reader will have to determine the meaning by other means, if possible. Consequently, the larger the reader’s vocabulary (either oral or print), the easier it is to make sense of the text.